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it comes just a day after a gunman killed ten people in a suspected racially—motivated terror attack at a supermarket in the city of buffalo. now on bbc news, dateline. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast for audiences back home from the dateline — london. its been a convention—busting week, this one — a queens speech delivered for the first time in 70 years by a royal other than the queen. two count...

large rallies have taken place in houston, new york, washington, los angeles and chicago. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme. it brings together the foreign journalists who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline in london. it has been a convention busting week, this one. a queens speech delivered for the first time in 70 years by a royal other than the queen, two countries, strictly neutral for 80 years, preparing to take si...

hello and welcome to the programme that brings together the foreign journalists who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline — london. its been a convention—busting week, this one — a queens speech delivered for the first time in 70 years by a royal other than the queen. two countries strictly neutral for 80 years, preparing to take sides. in northern ireland, a party in favour of reuniting the island of ireland topped the poll for the first time in the ...

Are sustaining at the moment, i wonder. a couple of other points — you mentioned sacrifices the finns may be making. and sweden obviously still hasnt formally decided whether itsjoining. but they published a report on friday which was suggesting that there were good arguments for, the swedish foreign minister saying that actually, she felt it would make the risk of war less likely because it raised the stakes if russia did attack any of the other countries. butjust in terms of the price finns ...

I mean, its thats not complicated. and, you know, thats whats happened in this case. - the other interesting| thing is that finlands border with russia is, what? 12,1,300 kilometers? and the kremlin spokesman said i the other day that they were going to take what was it — strategic, strategic, i military and technical measures, - which presumably means putting a lot of weapons along the border, as they did with ukraine. - but ijust wonder. what hes got left. thatll cover 1,300 kilometers. give...

Given the losses that russia is sustaining at the moment? you mentioned sacrifices, that the finns may be making, and sweden still hasnt fully decided if itsjoining, they had a report on friday suggested that they had good argument, good arguments and the foreign minister of finland saying that they could make the risk of war less likely because it raised the stakes if russia did attack any of the other countries, butjust in terms of the price they pay, already we hear that a russian electricity...

Virtual performances and recordings, has that kept you sane during lockdown? yeah, theres a world out there. yeah, but i bet you cant wait for things to get back to normal, so performances can resume, things like that. oh, the wind is playing the harp! itsjoining in. yeah, this is the wind playing the strings. ghostly harp notes. well, heres hoping i can play this thing better than the wind. i am not going to lie, cerys, i feel a bit unnatural here. i look the part... you look the part, and that...

You sane during lockdown? yeah, theres a world out there. yeah, but i bet you cant wait for things to get back to normal, so performances can resume, things like that. oh, the wind is playing the harp! itsjoining in. yeah, this is the wind playing the strings. ghostly harp notes. well, heres hoping i can play this thing better than the wind. i am not going to lie, cerys, i feel a bit unnatural here. i look the part... you look the part, and that is all that matters. laughs. all right, here we go...

Unbroken harping tradition. so it very nearly did die out, but its great that recently i think there has been a surge in interest in young people. cerys is member of avanc, a welsh folk band formed of young musicians from all over wales. over lockdown they recorded and collaborated remotely, streaming their performances to thousands across social media. would you say doing these virtual performances and recordings, has that kept you sane during lockdown? yeah, theres a world out there. yeah, but...

..which means you get that nice echo sound, and the middle row are like the black notes. but i wont demonstrate because i never tune them, because lifes too short. this is the triple harp, an instrument only played by a handful of people across the world. i think its europes only unbroken harping tradition. so it very nearly did die out, but its great that recently i think there has been a surge in interest in young people. cerys is member of avanc, a welsh folk band formed of young musicians fr...